Happy new year! Big data and real-time are hot topics and we feel that MediaSift is ready to take on the challenge of assisting our customers with the problems of dealing with and analysing the right social media data. So what did we do in 2010? DataSift was built as a platform for consumers and businesses to sift through the real-time web to discover content. We launched the Alpha three months ago and within a…

There has been a lot of conversation on our LinkedIn and Facebook page about what curation is and how it relates to DataSift and our services. We look at curation here at DatSift in terms of digital curation, which is defined broadly as the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital data. Here’s what Andy Gott has to say on the subject of Real Time Curation: Here’s how we do it, we collect and…